Treefrog Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 This from the Chicago Sun-Times' review of the JBC's opening performance of Romeo and Juliet: The Auditorium Theatre was impressively full Wednesday, but announcements about the unfolding score at Wrigley Field were made at both intermissions, proving you can have your ballet and your baseball, too. Ya gotta love it. Even the balletomanes take notice when the (formerly) hapless Cubs make the playoffs! Link to comment
Watermill Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 And at half time the Seahawks announced that Patricia Barker had just successfully accomplished 32 perfect fouettes in Swan Lake! The crowd went wild! With a wink, Watermill Link to comment
nlkflint Posted October 10, 2003 Share Posted October 10, 2003 Watermill, still laughing out loud!!!. Treefrog--watch out for those Marlins. Link to comment
Treefrog Posted October 10, 2003 Author Share Posted October 10, 2003 That's great, Watermill! :hyper: As for those Marlins: :nopity: Link to comment
citibob Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 Most of the dancers in my company are into the Red Sox --- and I checked the score on my cell phone after the show. Wow, the Cubs and Red Sox are both hot this year. It must be some kind of alignment of the planets... Link to comment
aspirant Posted October 11, 2003 Share Posted October 11, 2003 In an attempt to bridge the gap some years back, Elizabeth Streb's company performed at a ballpark after batting practice for half an hour. Granted, her work is as in-your-face physical as it can get, involving equipment to bounce off, but they reported a huge rise in the ticket sales for the 'real' show they were having that following week. Link to comment
Funny Face Posted October 12, 2003 Share Posted October 12, 2003 Isn't this phenomenon about the Cubs in the Book of Revelations? Link to comment
Treefrog Posted December 4, 2003 Author Share Posted December 4, 2003 It just keeps getting better and better here in Chicago! Check this link to find out about dancers from the Joffrey dancing at halftime of a Bull's game. Joffrey markets itself with sample at Bulls game With the arrival of new marketing honcho Hope Wolman, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is trying some decidedly different marketing tactics, one of which must have startled a few Chicago Bulls fans Monday night. Joffrey company members showed up at the United Center to perform an excerpt from the troupe's annual holiday production of "The Nutcracker" during halftime at the basketball game. "The Nutcracker" opens Friday night at the Auditorium Theatre and runs through Dec. 28. Wolman said she wanted to expose Bulls audiences to ballet to make them aware dance is every bit as much of an athletic endeavor as playing basketball. "A lot of people just don't understand what ballet involves until they have a chance to see it," Wolman said. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 Ouch Parquet flooring laid over a concrete slab. Ouch! Link to comment
Funny Face Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 I'm with you, Mjr. Mel, but you know how that youthful adrenaline can cloud one's judgment. Perhaps someone could develop a hightop sneaker with a shank -- some sort of hybrid for such occasions, if these performances start becoming a trend. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted December 5, 2003 Share Posted December 5, 2003 you know how that youthful adrenaline can cloud one's judgment. Gerald Arpino is going on 76 years old! What's his excuse? Link to comment
mbjerk Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 At one time after Joffrey first moved to Chicago I thought they advertise using the billboards on the freeways: Da Bears - Da Bulls - Da Ballet! These days Joffrey may have a better team than the other two...... Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted December 6, 2003 Share Posted December 6, 2003 Da Bears - Da Bulls - Da Ballet! That was Ballet Chicago's marketing ploy. Did Joffrey recycle the idea? Link to comment
sandik Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 It seems that Nutcracker is one of those ballets that uses whatever marketing strategies it can to reach a much wider audience than the usual (like the bobbleheads that Pacific Northwest Ballet has in conjunction with its production). Think of the myriad shopping mall and tearoom appearances made in December. I admit that a basketball halftime is a bigger step in that direction, but it isn't a new course altogether. Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 They should have made it snow... and had giant rats scurrying about... that wouldn't have hurt anyone, would it? And the children ripping the nutcracker apart... hmmm.... Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted December 7, 2003 Share Posted December 7, 2003 Aw, they saw that sort of thing on the way IN to the United Center. Link to comment
Hans Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 ::tries to picture a bobblehead Patricia Barker Sugar Plum Fairy:: Link to comment
sandik Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 ::tries to picture a bobblehead Patricia Barker Sugar Plum Fairy:: As imagination-defying as that image is, the actual bobblehead is of the Sendak Nutcracker, which is already pretty head-heavy, so the bobbling action isn't too farfetched. http://www.pnb.org/season/nutcracker/index.html Link to comment
Paul Parish Posted December 8, 2003 Share Posted December 8, 2003 I think y'all got something going in Chicago... and I don't THINK a champion basketball team is going to play on parquet over concrete; those guys know from jumping.... By the way, in Oakland there's a lot of interplay between the ballet and the Athletics -- La Russa's girls went to the the ballet school indeed one of them is now in the company -- and for at least a decade thereves been Oakland A's players performing on scheduled nights in hte fight scene in hte ballet -- they're playing on Clara's team, and they are really a lot of fun. Foir one thing htey have TONS of stage presence - and for another, they're willing to do echappes, with half-turns.... Link to comment
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